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The Napoleon of the People

Honoré de Balzac

『The Napoleon of the People』is a free short e-book of Honoré de Balzac available on Project Gutenberg. It has 7,599 words and may take about 30min to read.

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Napoleon, you see, my friends, was born in Corsica, which is a French island warmed by the Italian sun; it is like a furnace there, everything is scorched up, and they keep on killing each other fr...

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Honoré de Balzac

(1799 - 1850)

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